News!

Hello everyone, it's been a while.

We've been hard at work with the update, as well as something else. I've been meaning to make a post like this for at least a month now, but I always find myself just going back to developing instead. I apologise for this, but it's in my nature. Also, with all the events in my personal life as well as other things within the development, I've become somewhat numb to things leaving me uninterested in any kinda communication. I have received a lot criticism for this, which is totally justified.

When I added the 2k goal that would make me go full time, I always thought that we’d gain more following than that in no time so it was a dumb risk that I took, as it’s not nearly enough to pay for my expenses. People think that we live in some 3rd world country where everything is cheap. Unfortunately that is not the case. We are losing money every month, and I’ve been using my savings to keep myself afloat. Brakus has also expected to gain something out of this project, but so far he’s getting nothing. All the money goes to Oni’s rent and that’s about it.

I tried to lure in more hype by doing animations (in top of everything else I do), but it just became the new norm, leaving me very much overworked. Then I tried hiring VA’s out of my own savings, which also did very little to get this project to the next level. These dumb ideas are all 100% me, and so I’m the only one I can blame for this, lol.

We are getting exhausted with the workload, as I can’t live up to the demands people have on how much content I have to make within a certain schedule. I’m doing writing, all the different graphics containing animations and programming (scripting) as well as marketing (At least I should be doing that, lol ). Whenever there's some setbacks in my private life, the pressure of this humongous workload is depressing.

We realise that with a project of this scale we need to expand our team. The only problem is that we don’t have enough money to pay one person’s ( let alone two ) salary, so how could we hire more people? I know that there’s a lot of people who’d work for us for free, but I’m very skeptical of that sorta arrangements.

I’ve gathered a good sum of cash by going minimalist and selling most of my stuff (which has turned out to be almost a full-time job as well, lol ), and with that we’ve come to the conclusion that we need to do something else to fund this project and ourselves.

Now I don’t really want to go do something completely different as I feel that it would kill all my motivation to continue DBA. So we are making another, way smaller product, that will go straight to sale. We’ve done something similar before with DBA VRNR, so we know it can be done. I promise that It’ll be something our fans will truly enjoy.

We are not shutting DBA down, far from it. We are just trying to make sure that we can keep developing it in the future.

That being said, 816 active patrons. Damn, that really is something! We are extremely thankful for all of the pledges we get and that is the reason we refuse to quit! We’ll sort this out, one way or the another!

Thank you all!

Peace & love,
~Oni